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[QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 3111619, member: 237"]
The more I let the season to date settle in, the more I realize just how odd last year was. It really has been a double edged sword to have such a good season so quickly as part of Dino's rebuild. Clearly Dino knew it was an opportunity to have a flash in the pan season to spark the program and build hype. He also clearly knew since camp that there were a lot of things needing work and questions to be answered.

We all would have taken 7-5 last year and been thrilled with the continued growth and getting back to a bowl. Instead we were given a special treat and a taste of former and future glory. That might as well be considered laced with poison 3 games into this year.

So now we have to take a step back and look at the overall more than one year. It's year 4 and the residual challenges are still there. Growing pains of youth, recruiting challenges in that we still have work to do building more depth and talent and then the fact that unless you are a perennial top 5 program, college football can be heartbreaking as much as it can be amazing because of the unpredictability. We have experienced really just one heartbreak and that was Maryland. Clemson hurt but - the inner logic in most of us knew what we faced. Still yet, it was nearly a 17-13 or 17-9 game early in the third.

Now let's get back to 1 game at a time and seeing this version of our team grow and win a few more games to build that confidence back. A bowl season  being the goal first then maybe even more by way of the quality of the bowl.
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